Originally Posted by
TheBear
When I was new I was grateful to have a Captain explain the etiquette and culture here. That kind of mentorship and advice isn’t always explained during OE and goes a long way in keeping this a good place to work for everyone.
Yep. That's Captain's work. We have guys that come here straight from the military who haven't jumpseated and we get other guys who just lack etiquette. Mentor where necessary.
It IS the Captain's jumpseat. Of that there can be NO question for a million different reasons. That said, all decisions should be reasonably and rationally defensible.
We need to police our own so that when we go jumpseat with the rest of the world we aren't made to look like a$$clowns in the industry at large (although the PSA certainly thing did so as I've heard frequently).